Slackk

Slackk returns to R&S after 2015’s ‘Backwards Light’ with a killer six-tracker.

The stark emotional immediacy and anxious, jumpy flow of opener ‘Swan Filters’ sets the tone for an EP that moves far away from his grime forefather persona, a feeling amplified by the crackly, disjointed textures and harrowing melodies on second track ‘Skeleton Crew’.

The giddy, excitable flow of ‘Pigeons’ returns to the more familiar territory explored on his 2014 debut album ‘Palm Tree Fire’, before the flute, pan pipe melodies and Eastern tones of ‘Hundred Flute’ turns things much lighter.

‘Replenish Riddim’ then pitches sparkly melodies against a rugged percussive backdrop before the off-kilter flow of ‘Returning Geese’ takes things into a dreamier, calmer state. A real statement.